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High School Football

MONTROSE -There is such a thing as being too gracious when hosting out-of-town guests.

Montrose did its part of to help visiting Carbondale Area to a 34-0 opening-night win in Lackawanna Football Conference Division III play.

The Chargers capitalized on Montrose's first-half miscues, staking them to a 21-0 halftime lead, from which the Meteors never recovered.

Carbondale's Brad Sales set up his own touchdown when he recovered a Montrose fumble on a punt return. Three plays later he ran four yards into the endzone on the final play of the first quarter for a 7-0 lead.

Following another fumble recovery in the second quarter, Carbondale increased its lead when quarterback Ricky Jones threw the ball up into the end zone with Jason Martin snatching it out of the air for a 27-yard score and a 14-0 lead.

Late in the second quarter, Martin extended the lead by intercepting a Montrose pass and racing 46 yards into the end zone.

Montrose had six turnovers overall.

"We were a very opportunistic team tonight," Carbondale coach Larry Gabriel III said. "We needed to take advantage of those mistakes because we expected a very stout defensive effort from Montrose tonight and that's exactly what they gave us."

Staked to a 21-0 halftime lead, Carbondale Area didn't waste any time when Jason Jablonowski took the second half opening kickoff and returned it 86 yards to extend the lead to 28-0. Jablonowski would later finish the scoring for the night with a 1-yard plunge in the fourth quarter.

"We're a very young team offensively so it was good to see the defense and special teams help set things up for us tonight," Gabriel said.

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